Kimsooja

Born in Korea (1957), lives in New York, Paris & Seoul.

Kimsooja is an internationally acclaimed conceptual multi-media artist. Addressing issues of the displaced self and others; the artist’s work combines performance, video, photo and site-specific installation using sound, light and specific Korean bedcovers. With the eyes of a mirror and a needle that reveals and brings us to an awareness of self, Kimsooja investigates questions concerning the conditions of humanity, while engaging issues of aesthetics, culture, politics, and the environment we live in. Kimsooja brings together a conceptual and a structural investigation of all art media through an exploration of materiality/ immateriality, mobility/immobility, by non-making and non-doing, that inverts the notion of the artist as the predominant actor. The artist takes us on her journey that evolves with the continuous unfolding of her concept of Bottari (bundle) and the notions of Needle and Mirror. Kimsooja’s work invites us to question our existence, the world, and the major challenges we are facing in this era.

• Selective Solo exhibitions include; P.S.1 / MoMA (2001); Crystal Palace of Reina Sofia (2006); Traveling solo show at Contemporary Art Museum of Lyon, Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, and PAC Milan (2003-2004); Hirshhorn Museum (2008); Miami Art Museum (2012); Perm Contemporary Art Museum, Russia (2012); Kunsthal 44 Møen (2012); Museum of Modern Art St. Etienne (2012); Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa & Theatro di La Fenice, Venice (2006); Magasin 3, Stockholm (2006); Baltic Center (2009); Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (2010); BOZAR Brussels (2008); The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Kunsthalle Bern (2002); Kunsthalle Vienna (2002); the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea for the Yong Gwang Nuclear Power Plant (2010); Daegu Art Museum (2011); Atelier Hermes Seoul (2009); Rodin Gallery Seoul (2000); ICC, Tokyo (2000); and CCA Kitakyushu (1999).

• Selective Group shows include; Artempo (2007) and In-Finitum (2009), Venic; Cities on the Move traveling show(1997-2000);
Traditions/Tensions (1996-1998).

• Selective Biennales include; Venice (1999, 2005), Sao Paolo (1997), the Whitney Biennial (2002), Istanbul (1998), Lyon (2000), Gwangju (1995, 2012), Busan (2002), Sydney (1998), Valencia (2003), and most recently Thessaloniki (2010), Moscow (2009) and Poznan (2010).